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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by irq-1 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:25PM (#16477512)
South Korea had decades of dictatorship with a relatively easy transition to democracy and liberal capitalism.
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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by etrevino on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:07PM (#16477889)
That's true. It's the maintenance of that democracy that's hard, though. Plus, it was by no means certain that the country would become a democracy.
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